Talk:HMS Gloucester (62)

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[edit] Survivors

There seems to be an element of confusion between sources as to the number of survivors of the sinking. The BBC article and Ken Otter's HMS Gloucester The Untold Story (2001) are in broad agreement, with the BBC stating "only 84 of the cruiser's crew survived in the water until the next day" while Ken Otter has "only 85 men... survived when the ship was destroyed" and "Only 83 survived to come home at the end of the war". However other sources, like David A Thomas' Crete 1941 the battle at sea (1972), state that "Germans had rescued more than 500 Gloucester men".
Ken Otter suggests this discrepancy is caused by some researchers taking speculation of contemporary sources as fact. A letter from Admiral Cunningham in July 1941 states, "I have not heard one word about any of the Gloucesters ship's company though there is a rumour, that the Germans broadcast, that 75% of them had been rescued".
I would suggest that future editors should be a little cautious if they come across another source with the 500 survivors claim. Road Wizard (talk) 18:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)